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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Original Post - Aug 25, 2016 - 03:56pm PT
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http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2864442/White-House-of-the-Taco
Please post your Chossiculum Vitae with photographic evidence below.
Be sure to include why choss is better than granite.
Any choss publications will advance you to the 'advanced' round for promotion to 'Fuk that wuz dumb to climb that much loose rock' rank.
Pay is commensurate with how nutball you are. Less is more.
Pensions are paid in pebbles. Self serve withdrawal.
Moss bonuses are granted upon individual achievement. You're on your own here buddy boy.
Sign on the dotted line...
Make choss moss and but floss great again!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 25, 2016 - 04:00pm PT
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It is.
Special review can be completed for choss granite. However, you'll have to take a loyalty oath.
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cavemonkey
Ice climber
ak
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Aug 25, 2016 - 04:03pm PT
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The choss in ak is off the hook!!!!!!!
Usually I try to frame my photos to hide it!
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Aug 25, 2016 - 04:05pm PT
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Choss is indeed boss
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 25, 2016 - 04:12pm PT
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Looser is right!
Oplo, that looks horrifying. Sign here please... you're in.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 25, 2016 - 05:37pm PT
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Don's out. No Esprit de Corp! ;)
Only the elite!
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Kalimon
Social climber
Ridgway, CO
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Aug 25, 2016 - 05:56pm PT
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Woody the Beaver
Trad climber
Soldier, Idaho
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Aug 25, 2016 - 06:35pm PT
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Approaching the summit!
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Aug 25, 2016 - 07:45pm PT
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F*#king amateurs. "Oohhh, there's a loose hold... Oooohhhh, I'm scared"
You want to know about choss? This is choss.
If you offer me a big enough bribe, I'll accept the nomination for Secretary of Choss.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 25, 2016 - 08:26pm PT
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The pics previous to Woody's look like world class climbing.
If it's real choss yer too scared to take the camera out.
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matlinb
Trad climber
Fort Collins, CO
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Aug 25, 2016 - 09:00pm PT
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 25, 2016 - 09:18pm PT
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^^^^ Now we're talkin'!
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mynameismud
climber
backseat
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Aug 26, 2016 - 08:14am PT
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choss, because it is.
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F
climber
away from the ground
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Aug 26, 2016 - 08:29am PT
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I agree with Reilly. If it's truly death choss, the last thing you're doing is taking pictures. Belayers are ducking and hiding, leaders are pulling and praying.
I did a new route on a chossy Nunatak somewhere sometime that had a 60 m pitch we called The 5000 ways to die traverse. Of course being a traverse it was full value for the leader and follower.
Different range, different season. I led the first pitch of a mixed climb headed into the unknown. There were a few meters of hard climbing at the beginning followed by.... Choss.
By the time I stretched the rope and made the belay, the hard stuff at the bottom wasn't a problem for my partner, he just clambered up the 10 foot tall pile of rock I had trundled while leading the pitch. I figured I pulled off at least 4000 lbs of sh#t on that pitch. No exaggeration.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Aug 26, 2016 - 09:05am PT
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Yeah, F, I did a new route in Olympic Park that was a great route, but for the Towering Pile
Pitch. After traversing straight away 20' from the belay I got near the arete I was headed for.
I found a good couple footholds and one good handhold to lean back on to have a look up.
Mind you this was on the 'good' rock. As I leaned back the seemingly good hold parted ways
with the mountain. As I started to fall backwards I managed a cat-like grab to prevent a very
nasty swing back into the corner. Then I got onto the arete, aka The Towering Pile. For the
next 140' I constantly marveled at how such a large assortment of very large blocks could
have withstood the wind, let alone gravity, for so long. I dared not put any pro in, not only
because it would have been pointless but because I didn't want to threaten the fragility of the
pile. My big worry was that the trailing lead lines and tag line would catch on something so I
was constantly flicking and looping the ropes like some OCD rodeo cowboy. How it supported
our body weights remains a mystery. That's choss!
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Aug 26, 2016 - 09:22am PT
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Always plenty of choss in the Cascades:
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Oplopanax
Mountain climber
The Deep Woods
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Aug 26, 2016 - 10:06am PT
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BOMBER belay anchor amirite
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